“I’m honestly not sure. I don’t go out much,” she confesses. Again, I already knew that.
“You should find things you like to do, people you like to be around.”
“It’s not that easy for me,” she says softly.
“Why is that?”
“I … honestly, sometimes I can be reckless. I trust to easily and somehow always end up getting hurt,” she admits things I already knew about her.
“I think you’re trusting the wrong people then.”
“That was pretty obvious,” she laughs, and it fucking lights me up inside.
“Who hurt you?”
“Who hasn’t?”
“Boyfriends? Family?” I see her wince as if she’d been slapped, and I know who it was. I’ve done my research on her.
“Both. I have a bad taste in men, apparently.”
“Can’t be that bad,” I tell her.
“Oh, it is that bad.”
“Abusive? Cheaters?”
“Both.”
“Damn. I’m sorry, Caydence. No man should ever lay a hand on someone like you.”
“Someone like me?”
“Yeah. Smart, sweet, beautiful. No one should touch you like that.” I see the tears in her eyes, and I know I’m the one who put them there. I also know that I’m going to be the one to take thosetears, lick them from her fucking cheeks, and make anyone who ever hurt her regret their decisions.
“Thank you.” I wave a hand through the air, letting her know that she doesn’t need to thank me for that.
“You can always find me at school, you know that, right?”
“Wouldn’t that be weird since you’re my boss?”
“I don’t think so. It’s two separate places. Hell, don’t even tell anyone you work for me if you don’t want to.”
“Thanks for that.”
“You can say my name, Caydence.”
“Devon,” she says, and my cock hardens in my pants. I didn’t realize just how deep this girl had burrowed into me. How hearing her say my name would affect me.
“I think I like hearing my name leave your lips,” I tell her.
“What?”
“Say it again,” I demand. She looks at me strangely at first before licking her lips.
“Devon,” she repeats.
Fuck me. This girl is going to be the reason I come undone.
